Robin Baker

Robin Baker is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Winchester and a Fellow of University College London. He took his BA at the University of London and his PhD at the University of East Anglia. He has also studied at the University of Helsinki and at Stanford University. He was Deputy Director-General of the British Council from 2002 to 2005. As a writer, he loves discovering insights that have been hidden for a very long time in surprising places, and finding the words to do justice to their brilliance.